Remember The GOP Busting Pelosi’s Chops To Pass the USMCA

For weeks we’ve heard the continuous prattle out of the GOP from Robin Vos to anyone and everyone in the US Senate…that the do nothing House Democrats needed to pass the USMCA immediately for the good of the nation…while all ‘the Dems’ cared about about was impeachment, impeachment, and impeachment….

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And Now Pence On The (unratified) USMCA

A few weeks ago I mentioned that a number of GOP elected officials were touting the USMCA and the grand advantages that it would bear for Wisconsin. Well today it’s Vice President Mike Pence who is praising the trade agreement and the manufacturing jobs that it is going to preserve…

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And then the president said this about Saudi Arabia:

P.S. after some assurances that the US would be immune from oil price fluctuations…gasoline was up a nickel already yesterday afternoon.

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Wisconsin GOP Touts Unratified USMCA Trade Pact

I mean what’s up with that? But in the past few days Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald praised the value of the USMC trade agreement to Wisconsin farmers. Well it isn’t valuable yet…cause it hasn’t been ratified in Washington. And then State Senate Tom Tiffany praised its advantages in his…

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Costs: Tariffs OK, Minimum Wage OMG!

As we have seen all along…President Trump’s tariff driven trade war is creating havoc around the country. Small businesses are paying higher costs for essential raw supplies. Farmers have lost overseas markets for their agricultural products and are going out of business in record numbers. Consumers will start seeing price…

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Trump Hereby Orders Foxconn To Make iPhones in WI!

Most of you have probably seen President Trumps tweet ordering American companies to move production out of China. He can’t actually do that but he can increase tariffs and change trade policies to the point to cause that to happen eventually. But in case you missed them: In a Washington…

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Trump Finally Comes Clean On Tariffs

Most of us have known all along that American businesses are paying the tariffs that the president has levied on imported Chinese goods…and in many cases have had to pass along all or part of those tariffs as price increases on the goods that they sell to the American consumer….

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I am tired of winning the trade war

just sayin’…after China devalued their currency over the weekend…the Dow took a 700 point tumble today. Thanks Trump!

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Dichotomy About Manufacturing Jobs: Reality vs. Donald Trump

President Donald Trump visited Milwaukee yesterday and scooped up $3 million in campaign donations and extolled the increase in manufacturing jobs resulting from his tariff war. Except…that’s not the reality. During his speech at Derco Aerospace (a division of Lockheed-Grumman that is being prosecuted for overcharging the US Navy), the…

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Wisconsin, Trump, And Manufacturing!

There was a fair amount of newsworthy commentary about the economy and Wisconsin buried in the last half of an article announcing President Trump’s impending visit to Milwaukee. But I just want to bring this statement up for the moment: A central theme of Trump’s successful campaign in Wisconsin was…

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